• The RMI Members Council is the highest decision-making body, which determines strategic objectives, sets policies and procedures, and oversees the implementation of the GoodWeave program.
• The GoodWeave Standards Committee leads the development of GoodWeave Standards and reports to the RMI Council
  • Standards Committee Biographies
  • Terms of Reference
• GoodWeave national initiatives in producer and importer countries carry out the work of the GoodWeave program.

Other Policies

• Standard-setting procedures are developed by the RMI Members Council and carried out by the GoodWeave Standards Committee and the RMI Secretariat (view work program).
• RMI’s Child Protection Policy is based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and references the Child Protection Policies of Anti-Slavery International and Camfed.
• RMI funds partners to implement programs that address the root causes of child labor in carpet weaving communities, as well as those providing direct services to rescued and at-risk children.
  • GoodWeave Partnership and Funding Guidelines.

RMI and GoodWeave Operating Procedures (OP) cover the work of the RMI Secretariat:

• GoodWeave OP Development of New Policies
  • Submit a comment
• GoodWeave OP Development of GoodWeave Standards
  • Submit a comment
• GoodWeave OP Complaints Against GoodWeave Standards
  • Submit a comment

Note: Version 1 of the OP documents above were finalized on May 30, 2009. Subsequent revisions have been added based on input from ISEAL and the RMI members.Click here to download a log of comments/complaints.